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Running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux in Docker

One of the organizations that recently consulted me for advice, no longer willing to be extortion by Microsoft's high licensing fees, and plans to replace all Windows Server with Linux (Ubuntu).
No big deal for services written in PHP, Java, and other cross platform languages. But some of the systems use MicroSoft SQL Server as their Database.
The permanent cure is to migrate to MySQL, MariaDB, or other OpenSource Databases. But it takes time to translate all schema and queries.
The other solution is to use Microsoft SQL Server on Linux in Docker as a temporary workaround.